Mumbai : Juniper Networks today announced its Unite Cloud – a data center framework that gives enterprises the end-to-end solutions to simplify the creation and management of hybrid, multi-cloud environments.

Unite Cloud is designed to reduce the total cost of ownership while increasing long-term return on investments. In addition to Juniper’s existing comprehensive data center solutions, Unite Cloud also includes an enhanced Junos Space Network Director management application and Juniper Networks QFX5110 switch with 100 Gigabit (GB) capabilities along with Juniper Networks Contrail JumpStart service offerings.

Unite Cloud addresses the challenges of virtualized elements, multiple geographical spreads, huge investments, and cloud environments complexities by providing enterprises the required building blocks to manage public, private, hybrid and multi-cloud environments, scale with evolving business needs and support the deployment of new applications, services and technologies.

The solutions unveiled today complement the previously announced Unite Campus and Unite Cloud-enabled branch solutions to further broaden the Unite architecture to help customers build and manage complex enterprise environments. Announced in 2015, Juniper Unite architecture for the entire enterprise including data center, campus and branch with coherent management, allows organizations to design and build network infrastructures that meet their specific needs.

“The move to hybrid, multi-cloud IT is accelerating with workloads migrating to cloud data centers at lightspeed. Enterprises require agility and elasticity for applications or services to be spun up quickly and managed efficiently and securely with limited resources. With the solutions announced today, Juniper is changing the landscape for IT leaders who are in search of open, automated and secure solutions to deploy hybrid cloud environments,” said Denise Shiffman, senior vice president, Juniper Development and Innovation, Juniper Networks.

“The Meta-Cloud, or multi-cloud, where enterprises use many different cloud service providers (CSP) is a significant trend and represents a complement to hybrid cloud architectures. Meta-Clouds and hybrid clouds demand a network capable of spanning multiple DC sites with proper management. In a recent IHS Markit report, respondents indicated they expected to be using on average eight different CSPs by 2018, which will drive the need for solutions making it easy to create, automate and manage hybrid and meta-cloud environments while reducing costs,” said Cliff Grossner, senior research director and advisor, Cloud & Data Center Research Practice - IHS Markit.